Callum

Callum is a Scottish gift, derived from the Latin Columba, "dove," and carried into the Gaelic world by Saint Columba, the sixth-century missionary who sailed from Ireland to Iona and helped Christianize early Scotland. The name long dominated the Highlands and the Isles before drifting outward, and in the past two decades it has settled comfortably into American use, currently sitting in the U.S. top 160s. Two neat syllables, a warm double l, a soft closing m. Callum feels like wool sweaters, a kind neighbor, a boy who grows into a quietly steady man. Understated, handsome, kind.